WASHINGTON (AP) -- All American troops returning from Ebola
response missions in West Africawill
be placed in supervised isolation for 21 days, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagelsaid Wednesday. He called it a "safety
valve" sought by military members' families.

The U.S. military has nearly 1,000 troops in Liberia and
just over 100 in Senegal supporting efforts to combat the virus. The total
could grow to 3,900 under current plans. None are intended to be in contact with
Ebola patients.

In explaining his decision, Hagel noted that the military
has more people in Africa helping with the Ebolaeffort
than any other segment of the U.S. government.

"This is also a policy that was discussed in great
detail by the communities, by the families of our military men and women, and
they very much wanted a safety valve on this," he said at a public forum
in Washington.

The move goes beyond precautions recommended by the Obama
administration for civilians, although President Barack Obama has made clear he
feels the military's situation is different from that of civilians, in part because
troops are not in West Africa by choice.

Hagel acted in response to a recommendation sent to him
Tuesday by Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on
behalf of the heads of each of the military services. They cited numerous
factors, including concerns among military families and the communities from
which troops are deploying for the Ebola response mission.

Pentagon officials said it was too early to know exactly how
the quarantine-like program will work. Hagel said he directed the Joint Chiefs
to provide him within 15 days a detailed implementation plan. A Pentagon
spokesman, Col. Steve Warren, said it is yet to be determined whether the new
policy applies to Defense Department civilians returning from Liberia and to
military air crews who fly in and out of the area without staying overnight.

As originally envisioned, Pentagon policy called for troops
returning to their home bases from Ebola response missions to undergo
temperature checks twice a day for 21 days to ensure they are free of Ebola
symptoms and to be prohibited from travelling widely during that period. But
they were not to be quarantined and kept from contact with others.

The Army, however, acting on its own this week, put a small
number of returning soldiers, including a two-star general, in 21-day
quarantine in Italy. That group was the first to return from West Africa after
Ebola duty. Warren said that group of soldiers has grown from 12 to 42; all are
in supervised isolation at a military base in Vicenza, their home base.

Hagel said he believed the 21-day supervised isolation,
which he called "controlled monitoring," is a prudent measure. He
ordered the service chiefs to conduct within 45 days a review of this new
regimen.

"This review will offer a recommendation on whether or
not such controlled monitoring should continue based on what we learn and
observe from the initial waves of personnel returning from Operation United
Assistance," Hagel's spokesman, Rear Adm. John Kirby, said in a written
statement, using the official name of the military mission against Ebola in
Africa.

"The secretary believes these initial steps are prudent
given the large number of military personnel transiting from their home base
and West Africa and the unique logistical demands and impact this deployment
has on the force," Kirby added. "The secretary's highest priority is
the safety and security of our men and women in uniform and their
families."

West Africa

Kofi
Appenteng is a partner at the West
Africa Fund, and the chair for the Africa-America
Institute.

Note: Adebayo O.
Ogunlesi was a trustee at the Africa-America
Institute, Thurgood Marshall’s clerk,
and is a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Jessica Tuchman Mathews is the president of
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director
at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).

Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982

(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United States in war)

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